WHen the World Cup was in Japan and South Korea, I got to travel to Taiwan to see my in-laws. The McD's there had special burgers representing the countries and they'd sell them for as long as the countries were in the Cup.

They had a teriyaki burger, a pork cutlet burger (with katsu sauce) and a kimchi burger. The kimchi burger was the best, but they stopped selling it when Korea lost.

The country that immortalized the "Royale with Cheese" in the classic film Pulp Fiction has another local McDonald's creation to boast about. This take on the croque-monsieur, the classic French open-faced ham and cheese sandwich, is popular with Parisians and tourists alike. As one American visitor to France exclaimed about the breakfast sandwich in her blog: "this was no American Happy Meal."